Freshman can log onto a website, fill out a survey and see who they match up with. If they like what they see, they can request that person as a roommate.

“I think it's important for a student coming to a place they've never been before to have that sense of security in picking someone they know and trust,” Mario Pierce, the assistant director for housing operations for UNH, said.

She said she had no choice but to jump into living with a total stranger because of the schools policy.

“I believe that in a system where the students do not pick their own roommates, which is what we have, everyone starts on an equal playing field," Melissa Karipidis, the associate director of residential life at Quinnipiac, said.

Instead, the office of residential life makes the match. Think of it as Quinnipiac’s own cupid, kind of, Karipidis said,

“I try to find people who are going to be good roommates to each other,” she said.